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First Chemical Tests for Sugar in Urine
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The link between glycogen and diabetes is discovered
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HIgh doses of sugar are used as treatment for diabetes
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Personalized diets used as treatments
French scientist noticed a decrease in sugar in the urine of diabetics when the government rationed food. This started the first ideas of individualized diets as a treatment for diabetes.
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Pancreatic fluid is injected into patients as treatment
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A 14 year old boy became the first human patient to recieve insulin
The insulin was extracted from a dog pancreas and injected into the boy by two doctors named Charles Best and Fredrick Banting. This ended up failing, but a better inlulin injection was made by January 22 of the same year tht effectively lowered the boy's blood glucose levels.
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Protamine Zinc Insulin was introduced
Before, patients had to take two painful injections per day that many times caused abscesses.
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Insulin pumps introduced
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Stem Cells provide a posible cure for diabetes
Stem cells are used to replace damaged T cells that attack the pancreas of diabetics
